Rebeca Ávila de Oliveira Galvão (E316-77D1-8AB8)

Curriculum Vitae

Rebeca Ávila de Oliveira Galvão

Integrated researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History (IHC) and PhD Candidate in History at NOVA University Lisbon (project funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia - FCT). BA in Journalism and Communication (Minor in Art Studies) at the University of Coimbra and Master's student in Latin American Social Studies at the University of Buenos Aires. Currently working on Brazilian and Cuban foreign policies to Portuguese-speaking Africa during the Cold War.

Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Rebeca Ávila de Oliveira Galvão

Citation names

Ávila, Rebeca

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: E316-77D1-8AB8
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1889-5773

Email addresses

rebecaavila@fcsh.unl.pt (Professional)

Websites

https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/rebeca-avila/ (Scholar)

Knowledge fields

Humanities - History and Archaeology - History
Social Sciences - Sociology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
French	Elementary (A2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Elementary (A2)	Upper intermediate (B2)
Czech	Beginner (A1)	Elementary (A2)	Beginner (A1)	Elementary (A2)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2025/09 Ongoing	History (Doutoramento) Major in Contemporary History Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal "Brasil, Cuba e as violências políticas em África: colonialidade e racialidade durante a Guerra Fria (1961-1988)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2018 - 2023 Ongoing	Latin American Studies (Master) Universidad de Buenos Aires Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Argentina "Brasil y Cuba en la descolonización del África portuguesa: colonialidad, racialidad y política exterior (1961-1976)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2014 - 2017/10/27 Concluded	Journalism and Communication (Minor in Art Studies) (Licenciatura) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Affiliation

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2019 - 2021	Translator and interpreter (English, Portuguese, Spanish)	Contractor, Portugal

2018 - 2021	Assistant editor, translator	Revista Opera, Brazil

2017/01 - 2017/02	Intern (volunteer)	Národní knihovna Ceské republiky, Czech Republic
	Department of Manuscripts and Old Prints, Czech Republic
2015 - 2016/05	Communications officer (intern)	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
	Communication and Image Office , Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2021/09/20 - 2025/09/19	Brasil, Cuba e as violências políticas em África: colonialidade e racialidade durante a Guerra Fria, 1961-1988 10.54499/UI/BD/151250/2021 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2018/04/03 - 2019/12/06	Brasil y Cuba en la descolonización del África portuguesa: colonialidad, racialidad y política exterior (1961-1976) - Master Student Fellow Universidad de Buenos Aires Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Argentina Argentina Ministerio de Educación Cultura Ciencia y Tecnología, Argentina	Argentina Ministerio de Educación Cultura Ciencia y Tecnología Ongoing
2016/10 - 2017/02	Uncomfortable silences over Portuguese colonialism - Scientific Initiation Fellow Univerzita Karlova Filozofická fakulta, Czech Republic	Erasmus Plus Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Zunino, Malena; Ávila, Rebeca. "Mujeres, anticomunismo y Guerra Fría en América Latina: propuestas de investigación a partir de los movimientos de Brasil y Chile en la antesala de los golpes de Estado". In Guerra Fría y golpes de estado en América Latina (a 70 años del golpe de Estado en Bolivia 1952), edited by David Diaz Arias. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Editorial Teseo, 2024. Under revision
Conference abstract	Ávila, Rebeca. "La educación popular de Paulo Freire y la derecha brasileña en el siglo XXI: las ideas transgresoras como objetos políticos". Paper presented in 8ª Conferencia Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Ciencias Sociales - CLACSO, Buenos Aires, 2018. Published
Conference paper	Ávila, Rebeca; Zunino, Malena. "La circulación de saberes, tácticas y recursos entre los movimientos de mujeres anticomunistas en Brasil y Chile: género y Guerra Fría". Paper presented in XIV Jornadas de Sociología de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, 2021. Published Ávila, Rebeca. "Lei do Espanhol no Brasil, da implementação à revogação: a identidade latino-americana em jogo". Paper presented in IV Jornadas de Estudios de América Latina y el Caribe - IEALC/UBA, Buenos Aires, 2018. Published
Journal article	Ávila, Rebeca. "Brasil y Cuba en la descolonización de Angola, Mozambique y Guinea Bissau: una aproximación comparativa de sus políticas exteriores (1961-1976)". e-l@tina. Revista electrónica de estudios latinoamericanos 19 75 (2021): 48-70. https://publicaciones.sociales.uba.ar/index.php/elatina/article/view/6438. Open access • Published
Magazine article	Ávila, Rebeca. "2021, um ano estratégico para Cuba", Opera, 2021, https://revistaopera.com.br/2021/01/27/2021-um-ano-estrategico-para-cuba/. Ávila, Rebeca. "As irmãs Mirabal contra a ditadura Trujillo: mulheres na linha de frente", Opera, 2020, https://revistaopera.com.br/2020/11/26/as-irmas-mirabal-contra-a-ditadura-trujillo-mulheres-na-linha-de-frente/. Ávila, Rebeca. "Pedro Monzón: “Cultura é fenômeno que transborda Cuba”", Opera, 2020, https://revistaopera.com.br/2020/11/06/pedro-monzon-cultura-e-fenomeno-que-transborda-cuba/. Ávila, Rebeca. "Burkina Faso: 33 anos depois, haverá justiça para Sankara?", Opera, 2020, https://revistaopera.com.br/2020/10/21/burkina-faso-33-anos-depois-havera-justica-para-sankara/.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2023/09/08	Imagining Africa to imagine itself: Brazilian military dictatorship and the Third World as a space for dispute in the Cold War [Imaginar a África para se imaginar: a ditadura militar brasileira e o Terceiro Mundo como espaço de disputa na Guerra Fria]	IV Congress of the Association of Brazilianists in Europe ABRE (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/11/10	Speaker at the Seminar "History Teachers and Historians"	Universidade de Cabo Verde (Cape Verde)
2022/10/18	Brazil and Cuba: between African liberation and the Portuguese revolution [Brasil e Cuba: entre a libertação africana e a revolução portuguesa]	"Da Resistência ao Colonialismo Português à África Pós-Independente" Museu do Aljube (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/06/13	Brazil and Cuba in the Portuguese Colonial War. Race as an axis in foreign policy [Brasil y Cuba en la Guerra Colonial Portuguesa. La idea de raza como eje de la política exterior]	Espacio "La Investigación en Proceso" Grupo de Estudios en Sociología Histórica de América Latina (GESHAL-IEALC/UBA) (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2022/10/26 - 2023/06/19	Doctoral Thesis Seminar (IHC Advanced Studies Platform) (2022/10/26 - 2023/06/19) Seminar (Co-organisor)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
2023/01/26 - 2023/01/27	International Conference "Anticolonial Struggle, Transnational Solidarity and Agency of Individual Actors: Dialogues with the Portuguese Colonies, 1945-1975" (2023/01/26 - 2023/01/27) Congress (Co-organisor)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
2021/12/03 - 2021/12/03	1st Annual IHC PhD Workshop: "The challenges of Global History - National History, Connected History and Global History" [1ª Oficina Doutoral Anual do IHC: "Os Desafios da História Global - História Nacional, História Conectada e História Global"] (2021/12/03 - 2021/12/03) Workshop (Co-organisor)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
2019/07 - 2019/10	Press officer and translator for the Fragments of Memory Exhibition - Artistic Representations of Diaspora Lives (dir. Prof. Bruno Véras). UNESCO event at the 25th anniversary of the Slave Route Project, organized by the Freedom Narratives project (dir. Prof. Dr. Paul E. Lovejoy) (2019/10/08 - 2019/10/31) Exhibition (Other)	York University - SHADD - Studies in the History of African Diaspora Documents , Canada
2015 - 2015	Course "Heritage and education on Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous History and Cultures: round tables and conferences" [Curso de patrimônio e educação em História e Cultura afro-brasileira e indígena: ciclo de debates e palestras] (2015/07/23 - 2015/07/29) Workshop (Co-organisor)	Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Núcleo de Estudos Afro-Brasileiros, Brazil Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Centro de Educação, Brazil

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2020/06/02 - 2023/06/02	Discussant - Assessment of final essays ["American Studies" course] Symposium	International Relations (BA) Universidade Portucalense Infante Dom Henrique Departamento de Direito, Portugal
2020/09/16 - 2020/11/19	Interpretation [Spanish->Portuguese] Meeting	Rodas de Conversa - A proteçao coletiva das pessoas e coletividades defensoras dos direitos humanos, ambientais e territoriais e o direito a defender os direitos humanos em países como Brasil, Colômbia, Guatemala e Honduras Protection International, Belgium Centro de Estudos e Ação Social (CEAS), Brazil Coordenadoria Ecumênica de Serviço (CESE), Brazil Associação de Advogados e Trabalhadores Rurais (AATR), Brazil
2020/10/27 - 2020/10/28	Interpretation (Spanish->Portuguese) Meeting	Intercâmbio sobre Proteção a Defensorxs de Direitos Humanos Brasil – Colômbia Sociedade Maranhense de Direitos Humanos, Brazil MISEREOR, Germany
2019/10 - 2019/10	"Critical paradigms of emancipation in the Caribbean and Latin America - Revolution and memory" Workshop	III CLACSO International Postgraduate School Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales, Argentina Casa de las Americas, Cuba Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Germany Instituto de Filosofía, Cuba
2019/09/02 - 2019/09/04	VI Afro-Latin-American Studies Conference Conference	VI Jornadas de Estudios Afrolatinoamericanos Universidad de Buenos Aires Grupo de Estudios Afrolatinoamericanos, Argentina Harvard University Afro-Latin American Research Institute, United States
2019/05/28 - 2019/06/18	Assistente (carga horária: 12h) Workshop	Latin America in the geopolitics of the United States [América Latina en la geopolítica de Estados Unidos] Centro Estratégico Latinoamericano de Geopolítica, Argentina Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina Instituto de Estudios de América Latina y el Caribe (IEALC), Argentina
2018/06/19 - 2018/06/19	Assistente Symposium	The articulation between Science and Justice to think about Human Rights [La articulación entre Ciencia y Justicia para pensar los Derechos Humanos] Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina
2017 - 2017	Talk on the ELAN Network/Erasmus+ mobility at Charles University in Prague. Invited speaker.	Erasmus Talks @ UC Universidade de Coimbra Divisão de Relações Internacionais, Portugal
2016/03/02 - 2016/05/04	Bolseira assistente (Carga horária: 16h) Workshop	Course "Geoestrategic Introduction to the Middle East" Fundação Serralves, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares do Século XX, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2023/02/28 - 2023/03/24	e-l@tina. Revista electrónica de estudios latinoamericanos (1666-9606)	Grupo de Estudios de Sociología Histórica de América Latina (GESHAL) - University of Buenos Aires

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2023 - Current	Association of Brazilianists in Europe (ABRE)

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2020/04/12 - 2023/04/12	"Brazil and Argentina: development, regionalism and hegemony". Guest Lecturer	International Relations (Licenciatura)	Universidade Portucalense Infante Dom Henrique Departamento de Direito, Portugal
2020/04/05 - 2023/04/05	"Cuba and its foreign policy challenges: Cold War, Third World, and Revolution after Castro". Guest Lecturer	International Relations (Licenciatura)	Universidade Portucalense Infante Dom Henrique Departamento de Direito, Portugal

Interview (tv / radio show)

	Program	Topic
2018/11/23 - 2018/11/23	Podcast Pistolando #012 - Colonized and colonizers [Colonizados e colonizadores]	Legacies of Portuguese colonization

Other jury / evaluation

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2019/11/28 - 2019/11/28	Invited discussant - IV MESLA-TISHAL Symposium for Sociology students	Universidade de Buenos Aires - Taller de Sociología Histórica de América Latina, Argentina
2018/11/29 - 2018/11/29	Invited discussant - III MESLA-TISHAL Symposium for Sociology students	Universidade de Buenos Aires - Taller de Sociología Histórica de América Latina, Argentina

Distinctions

Other distinction

2024	Scholarship - Merging Voices Program Erasmus Plus, Belgium Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Universidade Agostinho Neto, Angola
2022	Scholarship - Platform for Dialogue CALAS: Guerra Fría y golpes de estado en América Latina (a 70 años del golpe de Estado en Bolivia 1952) Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies, Costa Rica German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany
2019	Scholarship - 3rd International Postgraduate School "Critical Paradigms of Emancipation in the Caribbean and Latin America. Revolution and memory" Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales, Argentina Casa de las Americas, Cuba Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Germany
2017	Scholarship - Course "Geoestrategic Introduction to the Middle East" Fundação Engenheiro António de Almeida, Portugal Fundação Serralves, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares do Século XX, Portugal
2016	Scholarship - Academic mobility at Charles University in Prague European Liberal Arts Network, Germany Erasmus Plus, Belgium Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Univerzita Karlova, Czech Republic